“The problem was figuring out how to get people to pay for them,” said Benjamin Woo, a communication and media studies professor at Carleton University, who studies comics. Webtoon has been ...

Patrick Horvath’s 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' is also getting the webcomic treatment as Webtoon, IDW strike partnership. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Indie comic book powerhouse IDW ...

However, things have changed, thanks to digitalization. With the addition of Webtoons and mobile-oriented comic platforms, illustrators became more independent. Instead of publishing agents ...

The popularity of Webtoon is nothing new. Together with the rapid rise of Korean content, it has certainly taken the digital comic world by storm. While people love manga just as much, the story ...

Digital comics have found new audiences. Ken Kim, Webtoon’s chief executive for North America, behind a character head from the comic series “Yumi’s Cells.”Credit...Michelle Groskopf for ...

They were in response to the growing presence of the internet and to compete with other forms of comics at the time, like Japanese manga. How do you think webtoons manage to stand out as a ...